Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IHE highest spot lnndDlteu Dy Huudu
beings is said to be the Buddhist cloister of
Hanie. Thibet, where twenty-one priests live
at an altitude OF 10 900 feet.
A LOUISVILLE colored woman has sold her
grandchild to white woman for $3.50, and as
the little one has fallen into good hands there
viii probably be no effort to interfere with
| the bargain.
AN anti-secret society conference, for
which the President and several professors
of Princeton College and many prominent
clergymen have signed the call, ID 10 be held
| March 30 in Chicago.
CHICAGO man is said to be writing book
to show that widows have some mysterious
| power of attraction for eminent men. He
have married widows. He ought to call his
| book The Widows Might"
A YOUNG woman of Boston was recently
presented with very valuable coin, a shekel
of the time of Christ. She took it to jeweler
| TO have IL mounted with pearls as q breast
| pin; and when she went for 1t was horrihed
to find that the jeweler had secured OF all the
| sacred accumulations of ages, and the shekel
| shone as bright as a new nickel.
| MAIL CARRIER RIGNEY, of North Carolina.
| was stopped the other day on the Blue Ridge
| by two hlghwaymen, who demanded the mail
bag or his life. He gave up neither. but by
| skillful argument and shrewd persuasion
| tanned nothing OF value, and they let MN
| go on unrobbed. Afterward he had them ar
| rested.
| A. II, WINCHESTER, West Virginia land
owner. has given about 60,o 600 acres in Ran
| dolph county, West Virginia, as hunting
| and fishing preserve tor the use of n sports
| mans association which includes PittSburg
| ers, Vlrginians, New Workers and Ohio men.
| 1t will he the greatest hunting park east OF
the Yellowstone, and the membership fee OF
the association has been placed at $1,000.
! THE clergymen of Cleveland have all been
invitet to attend the performance of the
''Black Crook" in that city, and some are
very indignant. Said the Rev G. T. Down
| ing: 50 would as soon accept an invitation
| from the devil to watch the fires of hell burn.
| The invitation is an insult. The Kiralfry
| Brothers must look upon the clergy of this
| country as gang OF long cared asses"
MICHAEL KRUGER, of Manchester, Wis,
was born 1l3 years ago in Posen, Prussia. He
is the father of nine children, seven being
| sons, and when the seventh son W as born Mich
| ael received a letter and $50 from the King of
| Prussia. Four of the children are dead; and
| the oldest living child is Gottlieb, who is Is
| years old and lives in Milwaukee. The
| youngest of the nine is now so years old.
COLBY MOORE, of Monson, Me-, has been
sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for
! arson. This means almost life sentence, as
Moore is now IS wears of age. The scene when
| Moore parted from his wife and little A-year-
| old daughter was q very touching one. He
wore handouts, ana the little girl was puz-
| zled by them and innocently asked: Papa,
| what are those for2 Are they to keepy your nit
| tens upI"
EDMUND YATES tells of very remarkable
operation that has just been performed by
| Mr.. Keetley at the West London Hospital.
| A child was brought in having a large mole
| covering nearly The whole of his cheek. HI
! transplanted the mole by exchange. That is,
he removed the mole from the cheek to the
arm ana planted flesh from the arm on the
| cheek. Everything succeeded perfectly.
! Mole and child are Doth doing well.
DIR, C. d. BRADLEY, at one time a promi-
nent physician Of Chicago, was recently COM
mtted to the insane asylum at Jefferson. He
is insane from the result of experiments upon
| himself with cocaine. HIS appearance is one
| of utter misery. His flesh seems diseased to
| the very core, while his bones have begun to
| crumble like chalk. Mrs. Bradley. upon
| whom the doctor experimental with the drug,
| is lying very ill at the county hospital. 1t ID
feared that she will meet with similar fate
as her husband.
| A NEBRASKA NEWSPAPER says that citi-
| zen recently saw Two Piute bucks dig hole
| in a snow bank, get into it and wrap them
| selves IN a single blanket, preparatory to a
| nights rest. In the morning he saw no signs
| of the Indians, but mound OF snow marked
| the spot where they went to bed. He was
! sure that they had frozen during the cold
night and prepared to dig out the bodies !;
| but the first thrust of the shovel brought the
| bucks to their feet with grunts of disgust.
| Instead of being frozen they were moist with
| perspiration.
THE death of Sir Joseph Whitworth has re-
| vived many stories of his early achievements.
! His greatest mechanical achievements were
| the production of exactitude and method in
| the manufacture of tools for machnists. His
|
| question of eXactitude. His later achieve
| ments in the production OF enormous arma-
ments sink lntoinsignihcauce when compared
| to the benefits macnlnlsts ana the world In
| general received from the minute and care
| full eXacttude ne brought about in the pro-
| ductiOn of tools.
| THEY tell big stories in Connecticut about
| the skill of Andreas Wakeman, of Vista, a
mighty hunter. One of his last is to the effect
| that the other day his dog ran a red fox into
| big pile of stones. While Andreas was try
ing TO capture the fox he spied a gray one in
| the same mole. He seized the gray fox by the
| hind leg and commenced to pull. The fix
| hnally let go so suddenly that Mr.. Wakeman
| fell over backward, and as he lay on his back
| still holding on to that fOX's leg, his dog and
q big coon tumbled on top of HIM. The two
| foxes, the coon, the dog and MIR. akeman
| were all tangled UP, but in the end the two
| foxes and the coon were killed, and Mr..
Wakeman and his dog were happy.
| THE visit of Col. Lamont to New York last
week, although brief and made for purely
personal reasons, excited the local politicians
| to an amusing degree. 1t was assumed that
the silent Secretary was bent on some politi-
| cal errand, and when William l.. Muller,
| who has general charge of the ID. b. Hill
| boom, called at the Hoffman House to pay his
| respects TO Lamont. guessers went to work
| with q will. IL was noticed, too, that Mr..
| Lamont had little boom of his own. One
young Democrat, who encountered Col. La
mont in the corridor, insisted on shaking
hands with him two or three times, remark
| ing with a good deal of emphasis: "Colonel,
| if the Presid ent knew what was right, he
would make YOU Secretary of the Treasury
| YOu are just the boy Tor that, now that the
! other Dan is going to quit" Not even this
| coHld loosen the tongue of the White House
sphynx. however, his only answer being q
| quiet smile.
In a recent lecture in New York, by Rev.
DIR Charles f. Deems,on "Berkeley,the Friend
of Ireland and America" the well-known
| divine related the following: Berkeley was
| on one occasion led by curiosity to see man